(CBS 42) AUSTIN A former Austin police officer is suing the city of Austin, saying he was fired for his religious beliefs.

Officer Raymond Perez says superior officers let him know his fundamentalist Christian beliefs did not fit in with police culture.

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Perez says this police psychologists report is a smoking gun that proves the department held his religious beliefs against him.

It says Perez, “takes pride in the fact that he is an ordained minister and that he and his wife home-school their children. As admirable as these beliefs may be, they seem to play a role in his defensiveness.”